Scalia
On Bush v. Gore: Get Over It!--Supreme
Court Justice Tells CBS It's Nonsense to Say the Decision Was Politically
Motivated
24 Apr 2008 People who believe the U.S. Supreme Courtís decision giving
the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush was politically motivated
should just get over it, says Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia denies
that the controversial decision coup d'etat was political.
[No, maggot, we don't 'get over' a coup. Moreover, we won't put
up with a third one, already simmering nicely on the Reverend Wright-flag
pin back burner. --LRP]

U.S.
media have lost the will to dig deep By Greg Palast 27 Apr
2007 Back in December 2000, I received two computer disks from the
office of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Analysis of
the data, plus documents that fell my way, indicated that Harris'
office had purged thousands of African Americans from Florida's voter
rolls as "felons." Florida now admits that many of these voters were
not in fact felons. Nevertheless, the blacklisting helped cost Al
Gore the White House. I reported on the phony felon purge in Britain's
Guardian and Observer and on the BBC while Gore was still in the race,
while the count was still on. Yet the story of the Florida purge never
appeared in the U.S. daily papers or on television. Until months later,
that is, after the Supreme Court had decided the election, when it
was picked up by the Washington Post and others. U.S. papers delayed
the story until the U.S. Civil Rights Commission issued a report saying
our Guardian/BBC story was correct... At that point, protected by
the official imprimatur, American editors felt it safe enough to venture
out with the story. But by then, George W. Bush could read it from
his chair in the Oval Office.

While
Republicans were saying that discerning the "intent of the voters"
was a 'Carnac the Magician' routine, vote-counters in G.O.P. counties
not only discerned the intents of the voters, they RECREATED
ABSENTEE BALLOTS based on their discernment of that intent. Ten
thousand ballots were RECREATED this way. Absentee votes went to Bush
by a ratio of 2:1. That's a net of 3,300 votes for Bush! How do you
spell hypocrisy??? Answer: G. O. P.

The
Washington Post finally revealed to the mainstream: As we've
known for six months, 18 counties never did mandatory MACHINE recount--illegal;
voter purge--illegal; Butterfly Ballot cost Gore 6,500--illegal; write-in
double votes not counted--illegal; missing motor voters; some counties
no bilingual ballots--illegal; late military ballots counted, and
some without post-marks counted--illegal; Says Clay Roberts, 'It's
an odd way to run a government.' It's more than "odd," Mr.
Roberts, it's ILLEGITIMATE! Harris should have been fired and charged
with violations of Voting Rights and Civil Rights--not promoted by
the G.O.P. A full-scale Senate investigation should proceed as soon
as Democrats take the Senate.

"Al
Gore won the 2000 presidential election."What
They Did Last Fall By Paul Krugman 19 Aug 2005 "In his recent
book 'Steal This Vote' - a very judicious work, despite its title
- Andrew Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The
Independent, provides the best overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida
vote. And he documents the simple truth: 'Al Gore won the 2000
presidential election.' ...Our current political leaders would
suffer greatly if either house of Congress changed hands in 2006,
or if the presidency changed hands in 2008. The lids would come off
all the simmering scandals, from the selling of the Iraq war to profiteering
by politically connected companies. The Republicans will be strongly
tempted to make sure that they win those elections by any means necessary."

[Proof
of Coup 2000!]When
five voted for millions --by Robyn E. Blumner "One of the
darkest hours in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court was Dec. 12,
2000, at 10 p.m., when the five-member conservative majority handed
the presidency to George W. Bush over his rival Al Gore... Reporter
David Margolick headed a writing team that spoke with a number of former
Supreme Court clerks who were there when the Bush case came before the
court... Margolick reports that Justice Antonin
Scalia was so anxious to shut the recount down that he pressured his
colleagues to do so even before the Gore legal team had a chance to
respond. That didn't happen, but consideration of the matter
was moved up to the next morning. On the 9th, a stay was issued. According
to Margolick, the court's more conservative members, Chief Justice William
Rehnquist, Justices Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Sandra Day O'Connor and
Anthony Kennedy, quickly started 'sending around memos to their colleagues,
each of them offering a different rationale for ruling in Bush's favor.'They were 'auditioning arguments,'
Margolick wrote. During the first go-round, Margolick reports, an O'Connor
clerk told fellow clerks that 'O'Connor was determined to overturn
the Florida decision and was merely looking for grounds.' This
was a court unhinged from the law, operating in a purely political guise,
bereft of legitimacy."

Coup
2K By John Dee "It was the Republicans
who first bandied the term 'coup d'etat' to describe the 2000 presidential
election. Since then, many have turned the tables and labeled Bush's
victory a coup. But how much of this is merely political rhetoric?"
(2001)

Diebold
Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting Fraud--The
Diebold Memos' Smoking Gun Volusia Co. Memos Disclose Election 2000
Vote Fraud --by Alastair Thompson "'Deland, Fla., Nov. 11 - Something
very strange happened on election night to Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic
Party official in Volusia County. At 10 p.m., she called the county
elections department and learned that Al Gore was leading George W.
Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000. But when she checked the county's Web site
for an update half an hour later, she found a startling development:
Gore's count had dropped by 16,000 votes,
while an obscure Socialist candidate had picked up 10,000--all because
of a single precinct with only 600 voters.' -- Washington Post Sunday
, November 12, 2000 ; Page A22..." [On page A-22! Only
that the resident is a complete fraud as proven fifteen other ways,
and it was buried on A-22!!!! This country is a rat-hole.
--Michael Rectenwald]

"Lost"
Votes and a Stolen Election, by Paul Lukasiak, with Maia Cowan:Elections
officials in Republican-controlled Florida counties omitted potentially
thousands of votes from their certified totals. The ballot designs in
these counties encouraged voters to both mark a listed candidate and write
in the same candidate's name. Such votes were rejected as overvotes although
they are defined by law as valid votes that should be counted. The Florida
Secretary of State failed in her duties regarding the conduct of elections
by certifying vote totals that did not include these votes.

Bush
picked up 176 votes that lacked postmarksBowing to demands from George W. Bush's campaign that military
ballots should be counted no matter how they arrived, several Florida
county canvassing boards tallied the overseas ballots regardless of whether
they bore the requisite postmark. Since Bush carried the overseas vote
by nearly 2 to 1, the disputed ballots may have added significantly
to the razor-thin margin of 537 votes by which he carried Florida and
thus ensured his s-election.

As
if we didn't know, The Washington Post reports on the advanced
release of the Civil Rights Commission Report: "Florida's conduct
of the 2000 presidential election was marked by 'injustice, ineptitude
and inefficiency' that unfairly penalized minority voters, the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights has concluded in a report that criticizes top state officials
-- particularly Gov. Jeb Bush and Secretary of State Katherine Harris
-- for allowing disparate treatment of voters."

Palm
Beach Post --links to 2000 s-election
killed that covered:

More
on the Florida Vote

Butterfly
ballot lawsuits wouldn't fly

How
we did it

Over-votes
cost Gore the election in FL

Lack
of voter education

Cast
your vote on election mishap in Florida

"WHOOPS":
How The Networks Got It Wrong Problem Polling Policy-- by Michael
Hammerschlag "Meanwhile, hard by the lush Ocala National Forest,
20 miles west of Daytona in Deland, a silver, battery-powered credit
card-sized memory card in an Election System AccuVote 2000 optical ballot-scanning
machine had lost its mind, recording negative 16,022 Gore votes, 2813!
extra Bush votes, and 9,880 votes for the Socialist Workers candidate
in one Volusia Co. precinct (#216) that had only 585 registered voters
(the SW, James Harris, got only 11,000 votes nationwide). Volusia election
supervisor Deanie Lowe recited, "Our county attorney came to me
and said, 'I just saw the craziest thing: Gore's total went backward'
I said 'You're tired, you're not seeing it right, that's impossible'."
The Deland machine "didn't upload [over phone lines], so they brought
the whole machine into the office ... (took) out the card ... and we
directly uploaded into the computer." At 10:02 p.m., the machine
dumped its corrupted contents: +19,000 net erroneous votes for Bush
into the Volusia computer. Volusia was instantly posting their numbers
on their county Web site, which they "shut down around 11-12pm.
We think VNS was picking it up from the Daytona News/Journal site that
had taken it off of ours," Lowe clarified Dec 22. The County stopped
updating their web site and we were left with the incorrect numbers
till the next morning, said the News/Journal s Matt Grimison, who was
stationed in Deland, the Volusia seat. VNS apparently entered Volusia's
wacky numbers at 2:08 a.m. into their (and the networks) system, helping
cause a 21,000-vote net rise in Bush's lead. Delayed 4 hours, they must
have known those numbers were suspect since they revealed a large vote
drop for Gore that should have triggered human and computer alarms,
as instantly happened in Duval Co.. Lowe continued: "We discovered
what the problem was; after they [the manufacturers in Dallas] walked
us through the process, we fed the ballots through a different machine,
we then hand counted them ... we backed out the bad figures ... and
... put in the good figures" and transmitted the corrected results
to Florida Election Hdqtrs. around 2:50 a.m., too late to stop the greatest
broadcast error in history."

Even
Bush lawyer Barry Richard disagrees with Supreme Injustices' decision
to stop the vote-counting --"I think that stay did more damage
to the US Supreme Court than anything they did," Richard said.
"They wanted to protect themselves [against having a recount declare
Gore the winner before they invalidated the recount]. I think it was
a mistake." That is to say, they didn't want to have to overturn
what they KNEW would be a recount favoring Gore. In other words, they
DECIDED IN ADVANCE that BUSH MUST WIN, regardless of the FACTS! Bugliosi
is right: The FIVE are CRIMINALS and belong BEHIND BARS!!!!! WE DEMAND
IMPEACHMENT NOW!!!!

This
morning's headlines in the Miami Herald read: Herald ballot review shows
Bush retaining lead. That is a twisting of the facts. You have to read
the whole story to get even part of the real picture, and they buried
this extremely important article.